I mentioned this because I already started on the Plato readings and...siiiigh...you know, I couldn't really admit this to myself when I was a student 35 years ago, but damn Socrates and "The Athenian" (and possibly Plato by extension) are such insufferable pricks.

I'm pretty sure that's him. (Like you have to ask which.)

John Swenson listing the album as one of the all-time most boring classics in the Marsh/Stein Book of Rock Lists has always prejudiced me against it and forty-plus years down the road that's something I need to overcome, damnit.

OK, this one should work then: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

OK, if that link doesn't work, try this one: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I'm on it!

This one starts with heart-stopping kinda-sorta Debussy and just goes EVERYWHERE from there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=acjr...

Don't expect too much; it all could be edited down. The ones I keep coming back to: Keith Jarrett. Funny because I've always been suspicious of his neoclassicism and his high-strung aversion to audience coughs.

I care so much about these 12 shows (a recreation of a 2013 Spotify playlist dedicated to the music of the year 150) that in my will, I'll be deputizing a family to maintain my Mixcloud account and keep it un-fucked-with. I might re-record the intro, though: it sounds fucking awful.

Today I've uploaded a slightly extended version, padded with a spoken-word section. Here's a new playlist with all twelve parts intact again: if you want to avoid my yakking on part #1 and get to the music, just skip to 8:15: www.mixcloud.com/epicharmus/p...

Because of this (and many other reasons), MoMA’s recent emphasis on art outside the canon I knew as a youth is a blessing. That stuff is less freighted. I can see it without jaded eyes.

I’ve known MoMA for so long, and so intimately, that it’s become a memorial for me—a memorial of a life, an art world, a New York, an America I cannot retrieve. This even though the museum scarcely resembles the one I knew as a teenager.